• @Ceedoestrees
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    457 minutes ago

    Let me tell you aout the only gym membership I ever had. It was a little place around the corner that was open late and rarely full. I enjoyed my time there up until I had to leave to the cold north on a work contract.

    There were no memes to warn me about what happened next.

    First they asked me where I was going so they could find town near my camp. There’s no goddamn way I thought a town, pop. 3000, had a gym along with it’s one main road and rocky woodland, but their franchise had spread that far. They said I could use that location instead. When I explained I’d only be spending one day a week in a town that was 250km from camp, they were like “Well one day a week is still a good deal!”

    The rest of my week would be in the woods doing long days of manual labour, like carrying 30lbs of equipment and supplies for ten hours a day, but they insisted. I insisted not.

    They tried shame: Was I not interested in maintaining physical health?

    They tried to appeal to my budget: One month at half off.

    They tried guilt: But I’d been with them for so long.

    They tried hanging up so I had to call them back.

    In the end I had to threaten to contest the charge to get them to cancel.

    In the real end I had to call them from the woods to ask why I was still charged for the next month. They pleaded with me to suspend my membership until I came back, so I said I was moving to another country. And that was the end.

    Learn from my mistakes, I thought I was taking care of my body but that’s just the illusion the cast over their gaping maw of a snake’s mouth. Their tactics have only gotten more sophisticated since then, making escape even more impossible.

    Please, for your own sake, never go to gym.

    • @logicbomb
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      133 hours ago

      Start with Putin and Netanyahu. If they’re cancelled by everyone, that includes their subordinates. They won’t be able to wage their wars if people won’t follow their orders.

  • @DarkCloud
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    254 hours ago

    This death note book, I’d be more into having it for the fact it comes with an imaginary friend.

  • @RedWeasel
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    64 hours ago

    Shouldn’t that be Prime or Netflix?

    • @[email protected]
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      62 hours ago

      Prime is now a lot easier to cancel, since they got sued.

      Netflix I only ever subscribed to with a gift card, so that was pretty easy…

    • @marcos
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      184 hours ago

      At least Netflix has a button on the site you can click and cancel.

      Now, gym memberships…